Editions d'Art Devambez|Paris 1926|22 x 27.50 cm|relié
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Edition illustrated with 15 original compositions by Henri Farge, including 7 in color, one of 75 numbered copies on Hollande paper. Bound in half black morocco with bands, smooth spine decorated with four horizontal bands of brown mosaic morocco ending on the covers with a pattern of gilt half-circles evoking the clasps of ancient books, the spine further adorned with pieces of red, brown and silver mosaic morocco depicting a dagger thrust into a book surrounded by a pool of blood, moiré-effect paper boards, moiré-effect paper endpapers and pastedowns, covers and spine preserved, gilt edges. Some small spots of foxing. Our copy, as stated in the colophon, contains the illustrations in two states.